Research Catalog

Title

Ballroom dancers [graphic].

Publication

[18--?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Brunellière, P. (Prosper-Aimé-Marie), 1803-
• Orr, Nathaniel.

Description

8 prints : lithograph, wood engraving, etching, color or b&w; 25 x 34 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Collection culled from a variety of sources, chiefly dating to the first half of the nineteenth century. Most items have been trimmed of their captions and/or publication data, making identification difficult. The prints in this collection portray well-dressed men and women performing various ballroom dances, chiefly against plain backgrounds. Most depict two to four figures; a notable exception is the untitled print signed P. Brunellière, which contains two rows of figures. At top left is a vignette of a couple in a domestic interior, accompanied by a fiddler. In the top row of figures are seven men and women, executing positions of the feet much like those of classical ballet. The bottom row starts at left with a man bowing, hat in hand, and continues with one, two, and four dancing couples, the last arranged in a square formation, possibly part of a quadrille.

Subjects

• Lithographs
• Ballroom dancing > 19th century
• Mazurka (Dance)
• Wood engravings
• Etchings
• Quadrille (Dance)
• Polka (Dance)

Genre/Form

• Lithographs.
• Wood engravings.
• Etchings.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.

Source (note)

• Lincoln Kirstein.

Biography (note)

• George William Curtis's Potiphar papers (1853), which first appeared in the New York-based Putnam's Magazine, satirized fashionable society. The illustration in this collection was engraved by Nathaniel Orr.
• Almack's Assembly Rooms in London became famous during the Regency period as the venue for fashionable and exclusive balls.

Contents

La mazurka; Journal des demoiselles, edition belge -- [Dancing couple; with penciled notation] "Potiphar Papers," Amer., 1852 [?] / JG ; N. Orr, N.Y. -- [Woman with man in military uniform] -- La polka -- [The first quadrille at Almack's; colored etching without caption] -- A quadrille at Almack's, 1815 [same image; b&w wood engraving from an unidentified periodical] -- [Man with two women] / G.B. Black [?] -- [Two rows of dancers] / P. Brunellière fecit.

Call Number

*MGZFX Bal 15-22

OCLC

825771379

Title

Ballroom dancers [graphic].

Imprint

[18--?]

Biography

George William Curtis's Potiphar papers (1853), which first appeared in the New York-based Putnam's Magazine, satirized fashionable society. The illustration in this collection was engraved by Nathaniel Orr.

Almack's Assembly Rooms in London became famous during the Regency period as the venue for fashionable and exclusive balls.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

[Woman with man in military uniform] Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Mazurka (Dance)

Added Author

Brunellière, P. (Prosper-Aimé-Marie), 1803- Artist

Orr, Nathaniel. Engraver

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Bal 15-22